Scientific Beta

ETF.com: "EDHEC-Risk Institute’s smart beta platform has teamed up with exchange traded fund provider Amundi to create smart beta passive products for the institutional market. The strategic partnership, which combines ERI’s smart beta platform, ERI Scientific Beta, and Amundi’s expertise in ETFs, is being developed on the back of ERI Scientific Beta’s “Smart Beta 2.0” approach."

ETF.com 18/02/2014

"(...) EDHEC-Risk Institute’s smart beta platform has teamed up with exchange traded fund provider Amundi to create smart beta passive products for the institutional market. The strategic partnership, which combines ERI’s smart beta platform, ERI Scientific Beta, and Amundi’s expertise in ETFs, is being developed on the back of ERI Scientific Beta’s “Smart Beta 2.0” approach. This enables smart beta indices to be used as risk controls within multi-smart-beta allocation. (...) ERI Scientific Beta has also signed a global replication licence with Morgan Stanley allowing the bank to replicate Scientific Beta indices and also share information with all the counterparties of a fund or mandate relating to the replication of a Scientific Beta index. (...) Hitendra Varsani, head of quantitative and derivative strategies at Morgan Stanley, said: “The significant interest and growth in smart beta strategies is driven by investors looking to improve risk-adjusted returns, manage volatility, and access more sophisticated weighting methodologies. Through our partnership with ERI Scientific Beta, investors will benefit from transparent smart beta index replication using Morgan Stanley’s market leading execution platform.” (...)"